Language / "sorry" instead of "przepraszam" [76]

I think its quite sad how Poland allows its language to be watered down. I came from the airport in Warsaw and saw all the advertisements for car purchase and rental. All the English marketing words 'leasing' 'marketing' I can not remember all the words now but there are more and more of them coming into the language. I watch M jak Miłość on our dish-six months behind Poland and there is even a bank advert before the programme begins with the English word 'prepaid'. I suppose I am getting off the subject of sorry and przepraszam but the principle is the same.

UK, Ireland / Polak moving to north-west England [56]

Some people at work have sometimes confused my wife as being possibly Scandinavian too.

UK, Ireland / Polak moving to north-west England [56]

I very much doubt it.

Language / "sorry" instead of "przepraszam" [76]


Yes, both these words seem to have become interchangeable in the Polish Language. I find it quite absurd how the Poles have allowed an English word in to their language. I wonder why they do not being in inflections to the word sorry. For instance ja sorruję, ty sorrujeś and my sorrujemy! When I was last in Poland, many years ago, I would hear young polish people say the word 'sorry' among themselves and I would simply cringe! It has the quality and cultural taste of a McDonald's fast food restaurant about it! Mind you, a word like przepraszam is difficult to say when you are drunk like many Poles usually are.

UK, Ireland / Polak moving to north-west England [56]


England is quite multi racial and I would have thought that the Poles would fit in more than the Muslim communities. As for the North of England I can not comment but in the South East nobody takes any notice of them. In fact, would an Englishman even recognize the Polish Language as being polish?

UK, Ireland / Polak moving to north-west England [56]


I doubt very much if there is any Polish hatred in Greater Manchester or any other part of England for that matter.

Travel / Your favourite Polish region/city, etc [32]

No, its not actually. I know Szczecin very well indeed. Its nice in the summer and there a lot of students there as there is a big university. Some of the back parts are really dreadful though, like anywhere.

Language / Dokonany/Niedokonany - Perfective/Imperfective [46]


This is correct grammar in English but in most European languages it is translated as I take therefore ja biorę-I am taking or ik neem as it would be in Dutch. The concept of I am doing something in the present tense is not a slavonic trend at all.

Buy a book of polish verbs. They are all listed with the differences between perfective and imperfective tenses.

Travel / Your favourite Polish region/city, etc [32]


If it is the Śląsk area you like best it might be that the people are not typical Polish as a lot of them have German origins. I was never very happy in Poland I must say.

Language / Difference between Polish Ł and English W [23]

I do not like the Polish ł. It is not bardzo ładnie but bardzo ladnie with a hard 'l' sound.

Love / HELP: Getting married in Poland not in a Catholic Church [12]


It is not one anything at all-its based upon a life time of observations. After getting married things will change and her good English will make it even harder for you to hold on to her when the time comes. Eastern European people are very adaptable, that is one reason why they are such a scurdge on society wherever they go.

Love / HELP: Getting married in Poland not in a Catholic Church [12]


One strong word of warning here before you get carried away. Do you understand the implications of what you are about to do? If you marry a Polish citizen then later on, that same Polish citizen will have the right of abode in Australia. She will have legal rights to stay and work there. This may in fact be her true intention. Tell her that you are not an Australian and that you only have a temporary right of stay in Australia yourself and see if she is still that interested after that. Beware, the Poles will do anything for a foreign passport. You will not be the first and sadly not the last to be taken astray.

Language / Who wants a Linguaphone Polish Course...? [30]


Bardzo to wątpię! However, I do agree with the fact that you are more intelligent than I am. In fact, I am prepared to accept the fact that anybody is more cleverer than what I am!

Language / Who wants a Linguaphone Polish Course...? [30]

Jak twoja znajomość języka angielskiego jest kiepska, kim jesteś się zaśmiechać?

Language / Who wants a Linguaphone Polish Course...? [30]

What is a torrent?

Study / Does Poland offer Polish Lessons for Free? [16]


I think more likely that Holland and similar countries with a good level of social care will offer free lessons in their own countries to their own immigrants refering only to their own specific languages. I doubt very much if Holland would offer free Polish Language lessons for instance!

Language / Who wants a Linguaphone Polish Course...? [30]

Rosetta stone courses are very expensive. Etot kurs oczen dorogo stoji!

Language / Most-used Polish verbs (and every-day sentences) [37]

As far as verbs go chodzić and iść meaning to go, are very important and are used in all sorts of situations.

Life / Poles in Poland: How did you learn your English? [60]

My wife can not spell in English and has been in England for fifteen years. She can speak the language and she says that suffices for her.

Language / Is this a TRIPLE negative? [9]

Africans has a double negative. As for example nie rook nie meaning No smoking.

Language / Is this a TRIPLE negative? [9]


Nie ma nic, na żadnych stołach.

Life / Would this be viewed as okay for most Polish families? [38]


Recently I asked my daughter to do something for me and she said no. I said that she must and that I am her father. She replied "I did not ask you to bring me in to this World". She is only six but what a good point I suppose and I could not argue with her. Parents, grown ups, have made a conscious decision and the responsibility lies with them too.

Life / Poles in Poland: How did you learn your English? [60]


Do not think that all Poles are communist. many Poles come from the middle class. They have money which buys privilege. They can travel overseas and experience life there for themselves. Stuck in Poland, it is hard without direct contact for someone to master another language but a lot of these forum members have taken the new opportunities, especially the younger generation of women who can use their sexuality to form new bonds of friendship overseas and use it to their maximum advantage.

Language / List of Polish consonants [8]

This question has also been asked and has been answered in full. Look through past threads and you will find it.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]


What on earth does that mean? O co ci chodzi?

UK, Ireland / Tide turns as Poles end great migration [26]

I think the main problem is that Polish building standards are so low that at first these new Polish builders were accepted with open arms. After a while, we see the results. They put in bathrooms with gaps between the walls and sink units and it becomes ever more costly to correct all their mistakes. Poles will promise you that they can do anything and everything and at a fraction of the costs to boot! Sadly, this is rarely the case.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]


Ah, is that why you come on this forum so as to improve your English before trying to fit in to a new society? Funny really, because if I remember rightly in Moscow under Communism, it was the Poles who hated Capitalism and America.

UK, Ireland / Some EXAMPLES of salaries of Poles working and living in the UK. [49]

I used to know a doctor in Częstochowa who had a private clinic. He was a gynecologist. He earned a lot of money and even sent his daughter to the United States of America where she trained to become a dentist. He went off the rails and became an alcoholic after his other daughter died. As I say, he earned a fortune but I do know of situations in the State sector where members of a person's family have to take in to the hospital medicines, clothing and everything as the hospital has nothing at all.

UK, Ireland / Some EXAMPLES of salaries of Poles working and living in the UK. [49]


It may all depends if they have a private clinic or not. State wages are very low but the Polish health professionals supplement their incomes by bribes.

Love / Polish men with Scottish Girlfriends [66]

Then that is still not a really long time.